That script came from here. I always thought sudo, superuser do, allowed one to run commands as root, period. So I'm ready to learn more about this from you.

Maybe the Dr. has to enable the root account and try running that script. Then we may know.

Not too long ago I was trying to help someone else uninstall a failed AJ. Never understood why it failed -- it's never happened to me -- or why he had so much trouble uninstalling. He ended up throwing in the towel, prematurely I thought, and just reinstalled.

Maybe I can get some help on this.

EDIT: just realized that page is for AJ 1.4/Tiger version. Maybe that's why the script won't work. Can't get into Terminal right now to see man applejack.But I think the default location and directions to uninstall are the same in the Snow version.

That script came from here. I always thought sudo, superuser do, allowed one to run commands as root, period. So I'm ready to learn more about this from you.

I always thought that admin privleges had it's limits, and reaching into the root account (/var/root) was that limit. As I said though, I could be wrong about this.

Maybe the Dr. has to enable the root account and try running that script. Then we may know.

Except he keeps refusing to do that.

Not too long ago I was trying to help someone else uninstall a failed AJ. Never understood why it failed -- it's never happened to me -- or why he had so much trouble uninstalling. He ended up throwing in the towel, prematurely I thought, and just reinstalled.

Yuk!

EDIT: just realized that page is for AJ 1.4/Tiger version. Maybe that's why the script won't work. Can't get into Terminal right now to see man applejack.But I think the default location and directions to uninstall are the same in the Snow version.

I just took a look at the AppleJack 1.6 .pkg installer (and it's postflight script). A quick scan of that stuff looks like that script is correct.

Dr. Rock, why don't you rerun the AppleJack 1.6 installer on your system? I don't know what's going on currently with your system and your applejack troubles, but if you rerun the installer it should reinstall all its requisite components...correctly. The you can boot up in single user mode, launch applejack, which presumably will launch correctly, and use its uninstall option.

With respect to that script. Earlier I said for you to try,

sudo rm /private/var/root/Library/Scripts/applejack.sh

And you said you got a "file not found" error. Frankly I don't understand that since that is where the installer installs applejack.sh. This is also basically the same command in the first line of the script WZZZ gave as well.

X: OK, not knowing anything about root accounts and terminal, I did ask "Does root level need to be activated in System Preferences for this to tactic to work?" in a prior post regarding running scripts, but got no clear answer as to how to proceed.

I thought about reloading a new copy of applejack 1.6 (the version I originally installed), but the problem applejack was supposed to fix has also migrated from 10.5 to 10.6. At this point, I'm inclined to think there is some basic corruption here, especially since single user mode will not exit on the first attempt. BD may be right. Maybe I should just bite the bullet, erase the drive and start over.

If all the above fails, then it appears to be time for a relatively painless Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...

This is almost the same conclusion I came to. Since all my content is on the 10.5 backup drive, and there is no Archive and Install feature on the 10.6 disk, I'll use what they call Erase and Install to erase the main drive and use the Migration Assistant to load all my data.

Thanks for the mention of EasyFind. Should be very helpful going forward.

As to the reinstall, it was the default installation that left us with the fragmented applejack and odd single user response in the first place. Erase and Install from the bootable backup drive turned out to be relatively painless, and took just about the same time as the first go round. Tested single user mode after the fresh install. Applejack prompt is gone, logout successful with on first typing of 'exit'.

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